Sedgwick County authorities are searching for an inmate who was accidentally released from jail.
The sheriff says 33-year-old Chad Alan Engel was booked into the jail July 2 on traffic charges and a warrant from McPherson County for a drug-related conviction.
The sheriff's office says in a new...

The president of Washburn University says the school is "very safe" and sexual assault is rare on the Topeka campus.
President Jerry Farley says a federal investigation into the school's handling of sexual violence stems from an alleged sexual assault involving two students. He says such cases ar...

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A northeast Kansas county will pay for copies of birth certificates for some voters needing to document their U.S. citizenship to register if they cannot afford to obtain the records.
Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew announced the policy Wednesday. Shew said he's addressing what he called an unfai...

Women's rights activists in Kansas are praising a romantic comedy about abortion.
Julie Burkhart, founder of Trust Women and the South Wind Women's Center, says the groups asked that the movie "Obvious Child" be shown in Wichita so the community could it. She says it is time Hollywood portrayed a...

The Office of Inspector General for the Veterans Affairs Department has released its recommendations for improvements at the six community-based outpatient clinics across Kansas overseen by the Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita.
The recommendations are based in part on a site visit to the Parsons...

A man convicted of murdering a Salina teenage girl back in 1984 has died while still incarcerated.
According to Kansas Department of Corrections records, 72-year-old Lonnie McKibben died on Saturday. McKibben was incarcerated at the Lansing Correctional Facility.
McKibben was convicted of 2n...

Police make two more arrests in a vehicle burglary case that left a Union Pacific Vehicle damaged.
According to Captain Mike Sweeney, officers arrested 19-year-old Seth Morgan and 18-year-old Kevin Bartholomew, both of Salina after investigators linked the two to vandalism of a truck owned by UP....

A Salina man is transported to the hospital after being stabbed twice in the stomach.
Salina Police are interviewing witnesses after a 48-year-old man was stabbed following a disturbance at an apartment complex at 501 E. Crawford.
Police Captain Mike Sweeney tells KSAL News that the wounds did...

A national gun control group argues in a federal lawsuit that a Kansas law challenging federal authority to regulate guns is unconstitutional and endangers public safety.
The Washington-based Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence filed the lawsuit Wednesday against a 2013 law declaring that the f...